Ah, I'm going to get pulled over to the dark side it seems, no matter what I try Okay, to make sure I have this right (and hopefully for the benefit of others who will want to do this), I currently have a shortcut in my Startup folder that starts BOINC Manager each time I boot up. It invokes "C:\Program Files\BOINC\boincmgr.exe" so it sounds like I want to add another shortcut PRIOR to it in my Startup folder that invokes this: "C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" -return_results_immediately so that would start the BOINC client (boinc.exe in task manager) with that option. When BOINC Manager starts after that, it sees that the BOINC client is already running and doesn't bother starting it. One question, in the same c:\Program Files\BOINC folder, there's a boinccmd.exe as well. That is apparently the command line interface version of BOINC. I don't need to be starting it instead of boinc.exe, right?

Net is, once this is working, I'll have the BOINC client crunching away and automatically reporting results immediately after it uploads them, my Connect to Server setting will ensure that I have enough but not too much work to make sure I always have WUs to crunch on even during things like server/network/DSL outages (except in extreme cases of course). Also, my Connect to Server setting won't delay results being reported and thus possibly delaying reaching a quorum for validation. Sound right?

I have noticed that sometimes it will not send anything for 1/2 hour or so. I'm not worried about it, since I have it set to store 2 days worth of pending workunits to cover any maintenance, server outages, etc. I have not watched continuously, since I am disconnecting and swapping out three computers on the same phone line, and want to see whether the others need anything.

In the meantime, BOINC must not trust me to finish what I've got. I saw this in my message log this morning:

Sending scheduler request...
Reason: To fetch work
Requesting 0.48527 seconds of new work

Use Truxoft BOINC from http://boinc.truxoft.com. It has an option to report results immediately and you set that option in a config file. That's much easier than starting BOINC from the command line with the report immediate parm and then starting BOINC manager later (though you might automate it in a .bat file, i suppose).

Truxoft BOINC has other options you can spec in the config file, eg. task priority.